Building perception and intelligence for the physical world: robotics, agentic LLMs, and edge AI.
- Research Assistant at the University of Galway, building autonomous navigation for a Unitree Go2 quadruped using self-supervised foundation models (DINOv2 traversability) for search-and-rescue.
- 4+ years taking ML models from research to production across robotics, medical AI, radar perception, and document automation.
- I ship models, not notebooks: end-to-end pipelines on AWS (SageMaker, ECR), Docker, CI/CD, MLflow, Terraform, plus ONNX on NVIDIA Jetson at the edge.
- MSc Computer Science (Intelligent Systems), Trinity College Dublin. AWS Certified Data Engineer.
Languages
Machine Learning & Computer Vision
MLOps & Cloud
Robotics & Edge
| Project | What it is | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio Website | My personal portfolio, live at lightshinichi.github.io | HTML, CSS, JavaScript |
| Ireland Site-Selection Agent (ITag) | Agentic LLM that ranks Irish counties for manufacturing using six concurrent data tools | Anthropic Claude API, Python |
| Maze Solving with MDPs | Search (DFS, A*) and MDP solvers (value/policy iteration) with comparison visualisations | Python, NumPy |
| Fundus Vessel Segmentation | Retinal blood-vessel segmentation with a Pix2Pix GAN (U-Net + PatchGAN) | TensorFlow, OpenCV |
| Network Security: Phishing Detection | End-to-end ML pipeline served via an API with experiment tracking | scikit-learn, FastAPI, MLflow |
| Finance RAG Bot | Retrieval-augmented chatbot over financial documents | LangChain, ChromaDB, Streamlit |
- AWS Certified Data Engineer, Associate (DEA-C01)
- Two patents filed: smart accident-prevention helmet (202141060755) and an automated smart-kitchen robot (202141060759)
- IEEE publication: Automated Inventory Management System
- Smart India Hackathon 2020 finalist (Hardware Edition)
Open to Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and AI Engineering roles in Ireland and remote.